I think your post emphasises the most important thing.  Two metres!  That is the only thing that really matters, plus being out in the open. 

Andy isn't getting a freebie anymore than furloughed employees are having 80% of their wages paid by the govt.

Edit - And what Llamy said.  ^^^

Yes that's my sceptical feeling as well some are getting double bubble and don't mind this going on for as long as possible. Never seen so many trade vans going past our place. I also suspect when there were a lot less cars on the road, some drug dealers switched to these type of vans so they are not as easily spotted.

Also as it's based on what you declare if you have done lots of cash in hand work etc. you'll only get paid for the limited amount you've declared through your books. I know someone who got caught by that, which I wasn't particularly sympathetic about.

EDIT - I see others made the same point before me!

From what has been said it sounds quite tight but presumably if it is based on last years tax return you could claim loss of earnings by getting paid in cash this year then getting that plus loss of earnings?

Edit. Should work quite well because like Trump they are not keen on HMRC poking around in their tax returns!

Daily slides

Social distancing. Changes in transport use

Testing and new cases

Hospital admissions

People in hospital

All settings deaths with a rolling 7-day average

Regional data for new cases today in England

The 7 English regions 

• London +44 (0.2%) 26,024


• Midlands +208 (0.9%) 23,190


• North West +187 (0.8%) 22,853


• North East and Yorkshire +276 (1.3%) 21,908


• South East +157 (0.8%) 19,606


• East of England +188 (1.5%) 12,564


• South West +63 (0.9%) 7,155

The 10 local areas with the highest cases

1. Kent +25 (0.6%) 4,254


2. Lancashire +48 (1.5%) 3,239


3. Birmingham +30 (0.9%) 3,192


4. Hampshire +38 (1.2%) 3,081


5. Essex +32 (1.1%) 2,954


6. Surrey +11 (0.4%) 2,774


7. Hertfordshire +19 (0.7%) 2,660


8. Sheffield +15 (0.6%) 2,419


9. Cumbria +3 (0.1%) 2,118


10. Staffordshire +16 (0.8%) 2,004

The 10 local areas with the lowest cases

1. Rutland +1 (3.6%) 28


2. North East Lincolnshire +2 (1.4%) 145


3. Isle of Wight +1 (0.6%) 157


4. Torbay +1 (0.5%) 211


5. Bath and North East Somerset +1 (0.4%) 225


6. Bracknell Forest 234 - No change


7. Hartlepool +11 (4.5%) 245


8. Windsor and Maidenhead 275 - No change


9. Calderdale +2 (0.7%) 278


10. Thurrock +2 (0.7%) 302

Italy

• 888 new cases


• 195 new deaths

Also worth watching closely. Are you able to include the previous day's data when you post other European countries! such as Italy?

Apologies if anyone has linked this but an interesting article covering the fatality risk of COVID-19 if you are not already infected:

https://medium.com/wintoncentre/what-are-the-risks-of-covid-and-what-is-meant-by-the-risks-of-covid-c828695aea69

FWIW, Worldometer is still going and has a good graph of Italy's numbers.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/

Do they also 'suffer' from our reporting where some days are notably lower, before rising again. Maybe compare the week before, or moving average.

Anyone got any up to date info on Germany's R value ?

Today's report not yet out. Here's yesterday's:

The current estimate is R= 0.94 (95% prediction interval: 0.79 - 1.10) and is based on electronically notified cases as of 12/05/2020, 12:00 AM. The estimate of the reproduction number R has been slightly above 1 in the last few days, which shows that the decline in the number of new cases we have observed in recent weeks has levelled off and may be reaching a plateau. So far we do not expect to see an increasing trend again. The slowdown in the decline in new cases is also related to local outbreaks, for example in the vicinity of slaughterhouses. Moreover, since case numbers in Germany are slowly decreasing overall, these outbreaks have a greater impact on the value of the reproduction number R than if total case numbers were higher. Overall, therefore, the development of the number of new cases must be observed in the next few days in order to rule out a merely temporary slowdown in the decline. Statistical uncertainties are represented by the prediction interval.

So the teachers unions have told the Government they don't have to go along with their recommendations

Shut the gates and come back in September

I have just sent an e-mail to the school asking to see my daughters classroom when its judged to be ready for teaching

Interesting ! 

Interesting that new cases in London have slowed to a trickle compared to the rest of the country. Maybe a combo of most people socially distancing responsibly and some kind of pseudo herd immunity amongst the rest? (Just a theory: say London Covid infection % was 10%, but amongst 80% who had been socially distancing it was 2% (1.6% of total population), but amongst 20% out and about it was 42% (8.4% of total population) would that give the 20% who haven't been in proper lockdown some kind of group immunity? also would suggest release of lockdown will lead to a rise in cases quite quickly in London

Quite a few issues staff SD,PPE,  cleaning issues we can’t get enough decent reliable cleaner now

https://schoolsweek.co.uk/coronavirus-unions-urge-government-to-step-back-from-june-1-school-reopening-plan/

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Looks like the app's not going to get much of a trial on the Isle of Wight

Another question I have is what has happened to the plans for social distancing on trains and buses? Last week the media was full of reports about limits of approx 15 people per train carriage being imposed by the government. Is that happening?

 Cheers

None proof pics of the day its all hot air and disappointing 

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-05-13/coronavirus-lockdown-eases-public-transport-crowds-tubes-trains-buses-tfl/